FELL FROM POLE
Man Badly Hurt TOUCHED LIVE WIRE Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, January 27. Severe injuries to his spine were received by Joseph Cole, a married man residing in Broadway Avenue, and an employee of the Palmerston North City Council electrical department, when he fell from a power pole to-day. Mr. Cole was engaged at the time of his accident in Featherston Street East, and it is stated that while adjusting his safety belt on the top of a pole he came into contact with a 230-volt power line eighteen feet from the ground. The shock caused him to be thrown backwards and he hit the ground with his back. Another employee of the .city council, who was on the ladder on the other side of the pole, rendered assistance until medical aid was summoned and the injured man removed to the Palmerston North Hospital, where an X-ray examination is being made.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 11
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154FELL FROM POLE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 11
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